Good evening.
I thought some of you might be interested in the upcoming Wildlife & Whiskey Weekend on Thanda Safari.
For more info or bookings please contact reservations@thanda.co.za or call +27325860149.
🦁 & 🥃
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I love Kingfishers and I recently took these pictures of a Woodland Kingfisher at Thanda Safari.
FYI: We have an exciting Birding Weekend coming up in April. If you are interested to come and do some birding and bird photography at Thanda then please contact reservations@thanda.co.za.
I will be there all weekend to answer wildlife and bird photography related questions and to give photography lessons.
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For Lions mating is a somewhat rough affair.
Frist, the male’s penis is barbed which cannot be fun for the female.
Second, at the end of most copulations the lady gives the gentleman a good smack in the face with her clawed paw.
And third, they mate for a few days running – in average every 20 to 30 minutes – until they are both completely exhausted and very hungry.
And during all this time the male has to make sure that no other male gets close to them and that his lady does not move to close to another admirer.
A Lion’s life, a rough life!
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Good morning
I thought some of you might be interested in the upcoming birding weekend on Thanda Safari.
For more info or bookings please contact reservations@thanda.co.za or call +27325860149.
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… to the sun.
Even if it meant climbing on top of another Terrapin who was sun-bathing itself 😊
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Yesterday evening I caught this beautiful Thanda Lion in the most beautiful light.
Have a good weekend 😊
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… is the term for an old Cape Buffalo bull who is no longer with a herd. As this specimen demonstrated last night at Thanda, such bulls love to wallow in mud as means to cool down and to give them some protection from parasites and the sun.
Such solitary bulls are extremely dangerous as they are notoriously bad tempered and ready to attack at any time.
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When they are not needed for horseback safaris then the horses on Pakamisa roam freely on the reserve.
I took this picture on Sunday when I met some of them on my morning game drive on the reserve.
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Two days ago we did a short night drive and we saw Spotted Eagle Owls, a White-faced Owl, Side-striped Jackals, a Bush-Baby (Brown Thick-tailed Galagos), a White-tailed Mongoose and a few Bark Spiders, who build every evening precision-webs to catch prey during the night.
The next morning they eat their own webs to preserve the protein for the coming night’s master-building session 😊
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An ‘airborne’ Impala female in sprinting mode at Pakamisa! As with most herd-prey-species good photo opportunities occur once the flight instinct kicks in. If one of them starts running for whatever reason the others will follow.
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